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Your daughter for his son?

Session 69 of 85512b–512d5 min

SocratesThat is why it is not the custom for a pilot to put on airs, though he saves us, nor, my wonderful friend, for the engineer, who is sometimes able to save no less than a general, let alone a pilot, or anyone else at all; for there are times when he saves whole cities. He doesn’t seem to you to be on a level with the advocate, does he? And yet if he wanted to say what you say, , making a grand thing of his trade, he would bury you in words, telling you and urging you that you must become engineers, since everything else is nothing; for he has argument enough. But you despise him and his art none the less, and you would call him “engineer” as an insult, and you would not be willing to give your daughter to his son, nor to marry his daughter yourself.

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